Lot 166
166
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FINE NAPOLEONIC GOLD RING with glazed memorial compartment in the bezel, the hinged cover with applied crowned initial N between laurel sprays, the matted ground with scrolls and with chased and applied eagles at the shoulders, plain hoop, engraved behind 'Charlotte Napoléon, 16 Avril, 1838'

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A FINE NAPOLEONIC GOLD RING with glazed memorial compartment in the bezel, the hinged cover with applied crowned initial N between laurel sprays, the matted ground with scrolls and with chased and applied eagles at the shoulders, plain hoop, engraved behind 'Charlotte Napoléon, 16 Avril, 1838'
INDENTFinger size W

Lot Essay

INDENTCharlotte Napoléone (1802-1839) was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon. In 1826 she married her first cousin Napoleon Louis (d.1831) and died in 1839 after the birth of a natural child which did not survive. See H. Montgomery-Massingberd (ed.) Burke's Royal Families of the World (1977), vol.I, p.105

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